- Author: Julia Van Soelen Kim
Are you interested in selling your produce to wholesale buyers but not sure how? The produce distribution industry is mobilizing to meet consumer demand to “know your farmer” and needs well-prepared farmers to work with.
February 24, 2015
All Day
Tour Stops include:
- SF Wholesale Produce Market (several wholesalers and distributors)
- The FruitGuys
- Cal Dining (university food service)
- And more (food hub)
North Bay growers can board the bus at several locations to be determined along HWY 101.
Online registration. Space is limited. Tour costs $20 per person and includes all-day bus transportation, a light breakfast, and lunch. Scholarships are available and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
See you on the bus!
Funded by grants from the California Department of Food and Agriculture, CoBank, Farm Credit West, American AgCredit, and Farm Credit Services of Colusa-Glenn.
- Author: Karen Giovannini
If you're an aspiring/beginning farmer or rancher with at least one year or more of experience under your belt, and want to learn how to take your operation to the next level - increasing your farming/ranching knowledge, connecting with experienced farmers/ranchers (Masters), receiving hands-on education, and creating crop, grazing and business plans, please apply for this year's program!
Applications for the AGROpreneurship Beginning Farmer & Rancher Training Program are due April 19, 2013.
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